Een belangrijk museum voor Groningen dat zelf deels historie wordt. Het Noordelijk Scheepvaartmuseum (NSM) werkt sinds 2014 aan een nieuwe visie voor de toekomst van het museum. De gemeente Groningen had namelijk aangegeven te willen streven naar een ‘Huis van Groningse Geschiedenis’ in een ‘Historisch …

Recent collection display practices signal what has been described as a “comeback” for the integration of broad-ranging object categories in which the boundaries between these previously separated objects resolve. Mixing objects from different object categories can take many forms, and occurs not only …

This short text was written to accompany the images on the invitation of Laura White, for which I would like to thank her very much. The text is based on a number of publications and the exhibition Object Lessons: The History of Material Education in 8 Chapters, I curated together with Imke Volkers at …

Het project 'Kunst met een opdracht, kunst en gemeenschap’ is gericht op de versterking van de relatie tussen het museum, de lokale gemeenschap en kunst in de publieke ruimte. Het doel is om gezamenlijk de waardering voor kunst in de openbare ruimte door het publiek te onderzoeken. Als studie-case voor …

This thesis deals with the problem of students who do not always know how to fill in their leisure time. There is limited information on the behaviour of Dutch students in their leisure time. By researching their passion related behaviour I gained insight in the positive and negative points regarding …

Musea zijn populaire attracties in de culturele wereld. Naast het tentoonstellen van collecties, komt beleving in het museum meer voorop te staan. Dit betekent dat de nadruk steeds meer op de beleving komt te liggen. Er wordt hierbij gekeken naar de wensen en behoeften van de bezoekers om de juiste beleving …

The sixth book in the Ebifananyi series is based on the photo collections of St. Mary’s College Kisubi, and the archive of the Brothers of Christian Instruction, who ran the school, that was founded by the White Fathers in 1906 in 1926. The title of the book Duc in Altum The book tries to invoke thoughts …

The launch of the sixth book in the Ebifananyi series took place at literary festival Writivism 2016, that was themed ‘Restoring Connections’. The book is based on negatives that are part of the collection of the Brothers of Christian Instruction in Kisubi, the ‘Facebooks’ of classes of boys available …

"Depression" has two conventional meanings: It can refer to an individual state of mind or to such collective conditions as economic crises. Each yielded their own visual languages and performances in the arts. With today's entrepreneurship of the self, the two states seem to have converged. The fall …